Analysis of May
John Shaw Neilson 1872 (Penola, South Australia) – 1942 (Melbourne, Victoria)
Shyly the silver-hatted mushrooms make
Soft entrance through,
And undelivered lovers, half awake,
Hear noises in the dew
Yellow in all the earth and in the skies,
The world would seem
Faint as a widow mourning with soft eyes
And falling into dream.
Up the long hill I see the slow plough leave
Furrows of brown;
Dim is the day and beautiful: I grieve
To see the sun go down.
But there are suns a many for mine eyes
Day after day:
Delightsome in grave greenery they rise,
Red oranges in May.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF CGCG |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 100101101 1101 001010101 110001 1001010001 0111 1101010111 010011 1011110111 111 1101010011 110111 1111010111 1101 10110011 110001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 531 |
Words | 94 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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